Alan Alda’s granddaughter goes to Kildonan School in NY (he discusses this in the interview). There’s still so much misinformation about dyslexia but it’s always good to hear thoughtful discussion and more awareness brought to the subject.

Even this interview is filled with co-incidental issues related to dyslexia but not necessarily because of dyslexia. Nonetheless, good to see and hear these first person accounts (including the call-ins).

Alan Alda also discusses his interests in making science more accessible as well as certain political issues.

4 Responses to “Alan Alda Discusses Dyslexia and Kildonan School”

My word, it’s like this interview happened twenty years ago… we know so much more about all of this now and both Alda and Brian seem to have a clue about. The first caller is great. Gad, listening to this is like listening to fingernails dragged across a chalkboard.

I still have medical people trying to tell me that dyslexia is primarily a vision problem. I wish they would have kept Alda speaking to the personal parts of the story, his granddaughter, instead of expecting him to speak to the more scientific or even educational parts.

Seriously, I don’t expect lay folks to know a thing about learning disabilities, certainly not the kinds of things that people in the field know, but both of them could have easily done just a bit of homework before speaking about it the way they did.

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